The Earth Quotes

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you.

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.

It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much love, life, beauty and peace. Enjoy your stay with the fellow beings.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

Between the finite and the infinite The missing link of Love has left a void. Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join In one continued chain of endless life.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.

I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old.

Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.

Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.

If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.

Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.